Maggot vs Screwworm - What's the difference?
maggot | screwworm |
A soft, legless larva of a fly or other dipterous insect, that often eats decomposing organic matter.
A term of insult for a 'worthless' person, as if a bug.
(obsolete) A whimsy or fancy.
* 1620 , , Women Pleased , III.iv.
The larva of the fly (Old World screwworm). The larva can be parasitic in humans and animals and are distinctive in eating living flesh of mammals unlike most maggots which eat only dead flesh.
As nouns the difference between maggot and screwworm
is that maggot is a soft, legless larva of a fly or other dipterous insect, that often eats decomposing organic matter while screwworm is the larva of the fly (old world screwworm) the larva can be parasitic in humans and animals and are distinctive in eating living flesh of mammals unlike most maggots which eat only dead flesh.maggot
English
(wikipedia maggot)Noun
(en noun)- Drop and give me fifty, maggot .
- Mr. Beveridge's Maggot , an old country dance [http://www.izaak.unh.edu/nhltmd/indexes/dancingmaster/Dance/Play4199.htm].
- Are you not mad, my friend? What time o' th' moon is't? / Have not you maggots in your brain?
